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TIL washoe the chimp (the first non-human taught sign language) became self-aware while staring into a mirror and then interacting with other chimps that she was not human

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e7Ln TIL Coke was for white customers only, while Pepsi was marketed to black customers
OkoL TIL that in a US military exercise from 1978 in which jet fighters were pitted against helicopters, helicopters won 5 to 1.
WkwMd TIL Charlie Soong sent his three daughters to study in America because China was unsafe. One daughter married China's richest man, the other married China's first president and became Honorary President herself. The youngest was also China's First Lady but later moved to Taiwan and lived to 106
7rD9L TIL that on November 30, 1954, a grapefruit-sized meteorite crashed through the roof of a farm house in Oak Grove, Alabama, bounced off a large wooden console radio, and hit Ann Hodges while she napped on a couch. This was the first documented extraterrestrial object to have injured a human being.
gMDgD TIL that Tournai is the only Belgian city to be ruled by England. It was under English control from 1513 to 1519.